The Girls

**Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of *The House We Grew Up In* and *The Third Wife*.**

You live on a picturesque communal **garden** square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses.

You’ve known your neighbours for years and you **trust** them. Implicitly.

You think your children are safe.

But are they **really?**

**Midsummer night**: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

**Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.**